Aurel Wintner

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Nationality Austria-Hungary Role Mathematician Alma mater University of Leipzig		Known for Jessen–Wintner theorem Fields Mathematics Name Aurel Wintner

Born 8 April 1903Budapest, Hungary ( 1903-04-08 ) Institutions Johns Hopkins University Doctoral students Robert BassMonroe MartinCalvin PutnamShlomo Sternberg Died January 15, 1958, Balti, Maryland, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books The Analytical Foundati, Eratosthenian Averages, An Arithmetical Approach, The Fourier Transforms of Probab
Education Leipzig University (1928) Doctoral advisor Leon Lichtenstein

Aurel Friedrich Wintner (8 April 1903 – 15 January 1958) was a mathematician noted for his research in mathematical analysis, number theory, differential equations and probability theory. He was one of the founders of probabilistic number theory. He received his Ph.D from the University of Leipzig in 1928 under the guidance of Leon Lichtenstein. He taught at Johns Hopkins University.

Works

Spektraltheorie der unendlichen Matrizen, 1929

The Analytical Foundations of Celestial Mechanics, 1941 (reprinted in 2014 by Dover)

Eratosthenian Averages, 1943

The Theory of Measure in Arithmetical Semi-Groups, 1944

An Arithmetical Approach to Ordinary Fourier Series, 1945

The Fourier Transforms of Probability Distributions, 1947

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